Electric-fan-guard attachment.



T. e. DABNEY. ELECTRIC FAN GUARD ATTACHMENT, APPLICATION FILED DEC.15. I9l4.

1,158,1M. Patented Oct. 26, 1915.

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A Tl'OfM/EYS T. G. DABNEY. ELECTRIC FAN GUARD ATTACHMENT. APPLICATION FILED 1550.15. 1914.

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A TTOR/VEYS THOMAS G. DABNEY, OF GLARKSDALE, MISSISSIPPI.

ELEGTRIC-FAN-GUARDATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Uct. 26, 1915.

Application fi1ed December 15, 1914. Serial No. 877,340.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, THOMAS G. DABMzY, a citizen of the United States, resident of Clarksdale, in the county of Coahoma and State of Mississippi, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Electric- Fan-Guard Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an electric fan guard attachment.

It is well known that the operation of shifting the direction of the air current of electric fans of the desk and table and other well known types, carrying guards, when the fans are in rapid motion, is often accompanied by a feeling of apprehension and by a degree of nervousness and mental discomfort, due to the apparent danger of bringing the fingers in contact with the revolving fan blades.

One of the principal objects of my invention is to obviate the foregoing objections by the provision of a handle which may be grasped by the operator in shifting the fan, and without danger to the operator.

Another object of the invention is to provide a fan guard handle having means for readily attaching the same to guards of the types now in use.

A further object is to provide a fan guard attachment of the class set forth, which will be extremely simple, durable, eflicient in operation and inexpensive to manufacture, and which may'readily-be put in place without the requirement of special tools or of skilled labor.

Still another and an important object is to enable manufacturers of electric fans to make the above described handle as an in tegral part of the fan guard when the fans are manufactured, and before they are placed upon the market.

With these and other objects in view which will become apparent as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the construction, combination and arangement of parts, hereinafter more fully described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which like characters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several figures, of which- Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a fan guard attachment constructed according to my invention, showing the same in position on a fan guard having a solid metal disk in the center, in which the handle is attached to the central disk by means of flexible metal strips. Fig. 2 represents a perspective View of the same attachment shown 1n Fig. 1 in which the fan guard has an open ring in the center. Fig. 3 represents a perspective view'of a fan guard attachment in, which the attachment is composed entirely of wire, as shown. Fig. 4: represents a perspective view of a fan guard attachment in which the handle is inserted through a perforation in the central disk of the fan guard, and secured to the same by means of a nut or key pin on the inner side of the disk. Fig. 5 represents a view partially in transverse section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4: showing the manner in which the handle may be secured by means of a nut. Fig. 6 represents a view similar to Fig. 5 showing the manner in which the handle may be secured by means of a key or pin.

In carrying out my invention, I provide in each modification of the device a handle or grasping means A and an attaching means B, by which the handle may be readily secured to the fan guard.

In the drawings I have indicated a well known type of wire fan guard at 5. In Figs. 1, 4, 5 and 6 this guard is provided with a central disk indicated generally at 6 and in Figs. 2 and 3 the fan guard is provided with an open central ring 7. The device illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 4:, 5 and 6, in each case has its handle A formed of wood or some other suitable material. The attaching means B indicated in the first two figures of the drawing consists of a plu rality of pliable metallic strips. The inner ends of these strips are attached to or formed integrally with a sleeve 8 fixed upon the reduced end of handle A.

In securing the handle to the central disk or ring as the case may be, in the manner indicated in Figs. 1 and 2, the arms each normally extending outwardly at right angles to the axis of the handle, are placed against the central ring or disk, with the handle lying in the aXis of the guard, and

the ends of the arms are then bent over the disk or the ring, in the manner indicated.

The form shown in Fig. 3, is composed of a pair of wire lengths bowed at their central portions and placed one over the other at right angles to each other, the wires then being twisted to ether near their bowed ends as at 9. The bowed portions thus form a handle as shown, and the four end sections of the two Wires form the attaching means. This form of the device is secured in the same manner as already described by bending the ends of the end sections upon the central disk-or ring as the case may be.

The form of the device indicated in. Fig. 4. is adapted for attachment to a fan guard having a central disk provided With a perforation through its center. In this form the handle 'A' is made of wood or other suitable material and from the smaller end of the handle, in the aXis thereof may pro,- ject a threaded'metal V 10 in Fig. 5. The shank is inserted through the central perforation in the disk, and is secured to the disk by nut 11 turned upon the shank on the inner side of the disk as shown.

In Fig. 6 handle A is shown as having the handle reduced at one end, leavin a shoulder 12 to rest against the outer face of the disk and an integral smaller stud 13 beyond theshoulder and adapted to be inserted through the perforation in the center of the disk. Stud 13 is secured bv means of a key Or pin 14 formed of Wire Which passes through a perforation near the outer end of the stud, and Which is long enough to reach beyond the opposite margins of the disk on its inner side, one end of the Wireor pin 14 beingoverturned as at 15 to engage upon the uppersurface of the disk to prevent loss of the Wire from the stud.

In each instance I have provided a handle; and an attaching; means by Which the handle may be secured tothe fan 'uard in the axis of the latter,.whereby the Ian may be readily moved, horizontally, vertically, or in any other desired direction, Without danger of theoperatofls fingers coming in contact with the revolving fan blades. he device is intended to be manufactured. as an attachment for connection With fan guards of the types now generally used. Or it may bel'manufactured and made a part of the-fan guard in the original manufacture ofthe latter, so as to form a portion of the guard itself,- whereby said guard may shank indicated at dle end, a plurality of pliable flat arms connected at their inner ends to said SlG(W6 and in diametrically opposed relation to each other, said arms adapted to be bent upon the central ring or disk of a fan guard for securing said handle to said guard and in alinement With the axis thereof, substantially as described.

2. A fan guard attachment comprising a handle having a reduced end, a sleeve secured on the reduced handle end, and a plurality of pliable arms connected at their inner ends to said sleeve, said arms adapted to be bent upon the central ring or disk of a fan guard for securing said handle thereto and in alinement With the axis thereof.

3. An attachment of the class described comprising handle, and a plurality of pliable arms connected therewith and adapted to b6, bent upon the central ring or disk of a fan guard for securing the handle thereto.

4. In a device of the class described, the combination of a, fan guard having a central disk, a handle, and means carried by the handle for engaging the central disk whereby to removably and detachably conneet. the handle with the disk at right angles thereto and in the axis of the guard.

THOMAS G. DABNEY.

Witnesses:

W. L. HEAD, WILLIE RoBARTs.

Copies of'this patent may be obtained for five gents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

' Washington, D. 0. 

